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...whole tone scale with a lot of overtones." He adopted certain rhythms like the poundings of hydraulic presses, used them as contrapuntal accompaniments to string and woodwind melodies. The factory whistle gave him trouble until he found he could reproduce it by a piccolo, clarinet, oboe and tuba chord...
...automobile body by "No-draft ventilation," to make him throw a nut at a window which does not shatter. With a flourish of trumpets, 4,999 changes into 5,000. As the grimacing imp changes back into an insignia the cinema closes with a happily synchronized major chord...
...number of times his songs are broadcast over the three major networks. But he forgets to call for it the days he arrives downtown with a song in his head. Then he paces the floor and dictates the lyric, rushes to his big old piano, strikes an F sharp chord and painstakingly picks out the tune while a musical stenographer writes down the notes. Irving Berlin never had a music lesson. He plays by ear, in only one key. If he wants the effect of another, he turns a crank and the keyboard shifts...
Wednesday Evening May 23 *March, E1 Captain" Sousa *Overture to "Orpheus" Offenbach *Reve Angelique Rubenstein *Baechanale from "Samson and Delish" Saint Seems *"Giris of Baden," Waltz Komzak *The lost chord Trumpet sole: Georges Mager Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1312" Tchaikorsky *"Mille Modiste," Selection Herbert "Dubinushka," Russian Folk song Arranged by Jacchia March, "There's only One Vienna" Schrammel...
...most important of his "principles" is explained thus, "Harmonic analysis is more than a description of chords as individuals. In the broader aspects it is a process involving of the shapes, proportions and underlying skeleton of a piece of music, as well as its more superficial texture... The most important observation about a given chord does not concern its make-up as regards intervals between the notes, etc., but rather what its relation is to the rest of the music...